‘The Rookie’ Wraps Up With a Chenford Cliffhanger That Saves an Uneven Season 8
ABC's The Rookie has offered plenty of exciting twists and turns this season. Our favorite police force has dealt with several terrifying villains, and we've even had a pretty blissful season of Chenford romance. But there were also some disappointing…
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Netflix’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ Miniseries Is a Powerful Adaptation With a Few Missteps
If you're of a certain age, there's a very good chance you've read William Golding's classic 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, which has been required reading in many schools. The book, about a group of young boys stranded on…
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NightBound | Film Threat
Rogelio Rios’s found-footage short NightBound traps a man in his own home as supernatural forces close in around him. What begins as a desperate escape becomes an endless nightmare of impossible choices and inescapable horror. A man (Rogelio Rios) sits…
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FROM Season 4 Episode 1 Review
FROM Season 4 Episode 1 opens up and immediately reminds you that this show does not care about easing you back in. There’s no warm-up, no “previously on,” no gentle reintroduction to the chaos. It picks up right where we…
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not left us on a mic drop of a finale. While it seemed there was little else to say about Samara Weaving’s Grace, it did leave a few balls in the air. When we last saw Grace, she…
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An Imbalanced Yet Effective Follow-Up to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
When “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, first premiered in 2017, it felt like a bleak calling card of our time. Now, nearly ten years later, “The Testaments,” also based on Atwood’s…
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A Masterful Biopic That Lives Up To The King Of Pop’s Legendary Status
Neither adaptations of Michael Jackson's life nor biopics of famous singers are anything new. Elvis and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody both hit the big screen in 2022 alone, and Bob Marley: One Love wasn't far behind in…
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Netflix’s Sports Comedy ‘Running Point’ Is Still Hilarious but Starting to Get Repetitive in Season 2
Running Point had no right to be as excellent as it was when it released in 2025. Then again, it had the creative backing of the likes of Mindy Kaling, David Stassen, and Sal Saperstein himself, Ike Barinholtz. Plus, it…
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‘The Boys’ Borrows a Surprising Twist From ‘The Last of Us’ in an Eerily Timely Episode
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Boys Season 5 Episode 4. Last week's episode of The Boys was a heavy one. Things come full circle for Hughie (Jack Quaid) when he meets Translucent's (Alex Hassell) son, Maverick…
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A Twisted Love Triangle Told in Fragments
HBO’s DTF St. Louis, created by Steven Conrad, is the kind of series that feels deliberately engineered to provoke discomfort. It’s a dark comedy wrapped in a murder mystery, structured like a puzzle box, and fueled by a trio…
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I Swear | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! Writer/director Kirk Jones’s I Swear tracks John Davidson’s life as his undiagnosed Tourette’s turns everyday moments — family, friendship, even basic public interactions — into high-stakes landmines. This is a real-life story of bravery about a guy…
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All Power-Ups, No Progression In Nintendo’s Empty Franchise Machine
If you needed another bleak reminder that we’re living in a dystopian post-story, social-media-clip-driven, instant-cut, TikTok-pilled era of filmmaking, where IP is mined and exploited at all costs, look no further than “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” After the success…
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